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by moralestapia 174 days ago
Poor guy must have been in a coma during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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He wasn’t in a coma, he was only 18 years old. He states up front that he has only been reporting for 40 years, so he started long after the CMC.
Read the article.

The opening sentence:

>I've reported on more than 40 wars around the world during my career, which goes back to the 1960s.

Do you judge the adolescent-aged version of yourself as harshly as you do this person?